A BARMAID who left a schoolboy scarred for life after she drunkenly crashed her BMW has been spared jail. Terri Parker, 31, ploughed her 320D SE into a stationary vehicle and then a fence while spe…
"Police vehicles attended the scene. A white BMW had crashed into a parked vehicle causing substantial damage.The prosecutor told the court that Parker had no previous convictions and the drink driving offence was aggravated by a child being injured.
Solicitor Peter Barnett, representing Parker, said she had been binge drinking due to the trauma of losing her newborn daughter six months previously."However, when the girl died she was left suffering from anxiety and depression. "She accepts that she was binge drinking at the time and clearly this was an example of binge drinking.Mr Barnett said Parker had decided to drive the two or three streets home as she didn't have a coat for the boy and the pushchair was in the boot of the car.
"Nobody could be more remorseful than her and she has accepted that she has caused the scar," he added.Chair of the bench Elizabeth Jeddes said the offences crossed the custody threshold but suspended the sentence as "there is a realistic prospect of rehabilitation".
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